Energy Balance and Hematologic Malignancies

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Mittelman, Steven D. (Editor), Berger, Nathan A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2012.
• Series: Energy Balance and Cancer ; 5
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cancer research.; Pharmacology.; Biomedicine.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Cancer Research.

The obesity pandemic continues to increase on a world-wide basis with over 70% of the United States population being either overweight or obese. Hematologic malignancies have recently been identified among the obesity associated malignancies spanning the lifespan from childhood to the elderly and in...